ECOFEM · From Toxic Embodiment to Ecofeminist Practice: Approaching Gendered Ecological Violence through the Performance Arts

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Ecological crises and the existential threat of climate change have now become undeniable, reaching us from around the world through vivid images: oil spills, waste pits, floods, ravishing forest fires. Yet the effects of environmental violence are often experienced imperceptibly in everyday life, over long periods of time. For this reason, the impact of pollution and environmental risk is now commonly referred to as a form of “slow violence.” This ecological violence disproportionately affects marginalized communities, particularly those in southern Italy, which as Europe’s internal margin bears the burden of industrial and state-led waste economies. Within these communities, women and feminized subjects endure a double layer of slow violence, as their bodies bear both the intersectional burdens of disease and the patriarchal responsibility for social reproduction. As a result, women and mothers are frequently at the forefront of community-led struggles to protect their bodies and environment. A fundamental question persists, however: how can we make visible the elusive nature of toxic pollution, as well as the gendered dimension of these very movements of resistance—forms of slow toxicity that remain equally unseen in everyday life? And how can performance arts and theater serve as embodied methods to express and make visible the experience of these intersecting, often invisible, forms of harm and resistance? ECOFEM tackles these questions through the innovative methodologies of ethnographic research-creation in the toxic landscape of Terzigno, near Naples, bringing together ecofeminist frameworks, multimodal ethnography, and collaborative arts (theater and embodied performance).

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

• UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaКоординаторИталия

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• Виж в CORDIS
• DOI: 10.3030/101284203